Product Compare

AMD Radeon E8870 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2015 Sep 2011
Generation Embedded Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 96.00GB/s 134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 12 12
Shading Units 768 960
TMUs 48 48
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 256 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 16.00 GPixel/s 25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 48.00 GTexel/s 38.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.536 TFLOPS 1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Saturn Barts
GPU Variant Saturn PRO Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture GCN 2.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2.08 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 160 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 75W 254W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors None 2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.3 5.0